by Amie Chalberg

Counselors, Teachers, Occupational Therapists, and activity leaders will have just as much fun teaching these lessons as their students do experiencing them! These activities appeal to a child’s sense of adventure and need to move by utilizing five active learning strategies to present the concepts: Movement, Visualization, Application of the Senses, and Novel/Unique Connections. Appropriate for children Pre-K through 3rd grade, lessons can presented in either a forty-five minute to sixty minute block, or two sessions of thirty minutes or less. Each lesson is comprised of two parts. First, an introduction, which presents the lesson concept with an attention getting analogy followed by engaging discussion questions for the students, enabling the teacher to self evaluate the presentation of the lesson objectives; then, a practice, which provides active processing of the learned concepts through a game. Each lesson has a teacher follow- up section which includes classroom connections to childrenís literature or other academic subjects, as well as classroom management techniques. Chapters include :Self- Discovery, Self-Control, Problem Solving, Emotional Management, Communication Skills, and Learning and Career.

• ISBN: 1-931061-40-8
• Pub Date:  October 2010, Jalmar Press
• 150 pages
• Language sold:  All languages available